perspectives on stuff from an angry feminist
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2008
It may surprise you, but women of colour, disabled women and queer women are in fact still women.
It’s a long thread, so I’ll quote her comments here:
Although thanks very much for illustrating so goddamned perfectly why this post is necessary. Because with nearly FOUR YEARS of archives in which I have done my fucking best […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2008
Finally, tonight, I need to rant. I have the course from utter hell this semester, and it just keeps getting worse and worse with every passing week. It’s the ultimate in ignorant, entitled white middle-class feminism mixed with quite a bit of plain there-are-no-words crazy, and after a string of “OH NO YOU DID NOT […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 5th, 2008
I’m unsurprised in many ways at the media saga that has surrounded the pregnancy of Thomas Beattie. What’s really saddened me, though, is some of the pretty appalling comments I’ve seen made about him from within the trans community.
One of the awkward issues that many of us who are trans are going to face, whether […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 31st, 2008
I was reading threads at Bilerico yesterday, and read to my surprise of the support of The Butchies - a band I’ve always really liked - for Michfest’s trans exclusion policy. It’s almost ancient history now, as it was seven years ago, and they’ve broken up in the intervening years, but their public statement at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2008
Mr McClelland is in discussions with the ACT Government to remove clauses in its civil partnerships bill that would allow gay couples to hold a public ceremony marking their union.Mr McClelland has told the ACT that the Rudd Government would not allow civil unions, and is pushing for a system of state-based relationship registers.It is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 11th, 2008
It seems it just isn’t the week for scumbag police officers who think they can get off on abusing women.
Senior Constable David Mits, an officer based out of Knox in Melbourne, plead guilty to demanding a bribe in the County Court of Victoria this morning. He tried to demand sex from a woman he had […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2008
God, some people are entitled assholes. Via Ren and Kim, meet Steve Gower, harasser of Atlanta sex workers, transphobe, and general repulsive creep.
In short, Gower is a middle-aged man who gets his jollies by going around his Atlanta neighbourhood with a video camera, harassing sex workers - and especially transgendered sex workers - in the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
From today’s Age comes the latest example of male members of the judiciary who can simply not be trusted to hear sexual assault cases:
Victorian County Court Judge Michael Kelly was accused of making insensitive comments during a case against Dean Woodbridge, whom he sentenced last December to two years and nine months’ jail, wholly suspended […]